{"id":1440403,"date":"2022-04-15T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440403"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:01:01","slug":"breaking-exclusive-youll-never-believe-the-journo-who-just-filed-to-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-exclusive-youll-never-believe-the-journo-who-just-filed-to-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: You\u2019ll Never Believe The Journo Who Just Filed To Run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-exclusive-youll-never-believe-the-journo-who-just-filed-to-run-for-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Intrepid journalist, vegan Zoomer to take on liberal multimillionaire David Trone <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMatthew Foldi\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 April 15, 2022 12:47 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> journalist Matthew Foldi filed to run for Congress on Friday morning in western Maryland, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Foldi filed to enter the Republican primary for Maryland&#8217;s Sixth Congressional District, which is held by two-term Democratic incumbent David Trone, a multi-millionaire who co-founded Total Wine. Foldi, who is best known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/granholms-green-energy-millions\/\">brutal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/granholm-failed-to-properly-disclose-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-in-transactions\/\">takedowns<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/energy-department-dismisses-granholm-ethics-violations-as-clerical-oversight\/\">Biden energy secretary<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/energy-secretary-granholm-violates-ethics-pledge-to-boost-proterra-watchdog-claims\/\">Jennifer Granholm<\/a>\u2014as well as his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1508156472563273732?s=20&#038;t=d4Y_oLDqv3MWH2bpaEMPZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flamboyant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1497431891242270723?s=20&#038;t=d4Y_oLDqv3MWH2bpaEMPZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outfits<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1493273028574253063?s=20&#038;t=d4Y_oLDqv3MWH2bpaEMPZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revolting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1486746264930820096?s=20&#038;t=d4Y_oLDqv3MWH2bpaEMPZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meatless<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1506049487361482758?s=20&#038;t=d4Y_oLDqv3MWH2bpaEMPZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diet<\/a>\u2014will now look to accost enemies of freedom from the hallowed halls of Congress, as opposed to his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elianayjohnson\/status\/1453461275753734152?s=20&#038;t=d4Y_oLDqv3MWH2bpaEMPZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obscenely messy<\/a> <em>Free Beacon<\/em> desk.<\/p>\n<p><em>Free Beacon<\/em> editor in chief Eliana Johnson said Foldi will be &#8220;missed&#8221; in the office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His unrefrigerated bottle of sriracha will be missed,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Foldi may not be able to clean his desk, but we trust he will be able to clean up Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nascent campaign already has allies on Capitol Hill. A well-positioned U.S. senator said Foldi&#8217;s congressional bid &#8220;would be epic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Foldi&#8217;s youth, this is not the Republican&#8217;s first run for office. In 2016, he became the youngest elected official in Chicago history when he won a race to serve as the city&#8217;s Fifth Ward Republican committeeman. Foldi went on to serve as an assistant to online personality and <em>Ruthless Podcast<\/em> cohost Comfortably Smug, who quickly endorsed his top minion&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foldi is one of the hardest working, motivated, and capable people I&#8217;ve ever met,&#8221; Smug said in a rare display of earnestness.<\/p>\n<p>Before facing Trone in November, Foldi has to win a Republican primary that includes state lawmaker and former congressional candidate Neil Parrott, who lost to Trone by 19 points in 2020. Others may yet enter the race.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have reason to be optimistic about their chances to win the district. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandmatters.org\/2022\/04\/13\/buckel-pondering-late-entry-into-6th-district-congressional-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaughlin and Associates poll<\/a> taken last week, 45 percent of the district&#8217;s voters said they&#8217;d rather be represented by a Republican, while 44 percent said they&#8217;d prefer a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Foldi resigned from the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Intrepid journalist, vegan Zoomer to take on liberal multimillionaire David Trone  Matthew Foldi  Collin Anderson \u2022 April 15, 2022 12:47 pm Former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}